Editing 2022 ICPL Sunshine Classic

The '''2022 ICPL Sunshine Classic''' was an [[International Classic Paintball League]] tournament held at [[Thunder Valley Paintball Park]] in Seffner, Florida, United States, from 28 to 30 January 2022. The event featured mechanical-marker competition in professional and amateur 10-player divisions and an open five-player division.[1][2]

[[Chicago Aftershock]] won the professional division, Saberwolves won the amateur division, and ac POWERHOUSE won the open five-player competition.[2]

== Venue and formats ==

The tournament took place at Thunder Valley Paintball Park, 210 Pruett Road, Seffner.[1]

The open five-player competition was scheduled for Friday, 28 January. Professional and amateur 10-player competition followed on Saturday and Sunday, 29–30 January.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Format !! Published game time !! Teams in final standings
|-
| Professional || Mechanical 10v10 || 12 minutes || 21
|-
| Amateur || Mechanical 10v10 || 12 minutes || 27
|-
| Open || Mechanical 5v5 || 6 minutes || 24
|}

Sources: PBLeagues event information and final standings.[1][2]

== Professional roster restrictions ==

The event followed a change to the league's restrictions on NXL professional-ranked players.

Contemporary reporting published on 5 November 2021 recorded a vote by 23 ICPL professional team captains. By 14 votes to nine, the captains supported limiting professional teams to three NXL professional-ranked players, with players over the age of 44 excluded from that count.[3]

The previous arrangement had allowed an unrestricted number of professional-ranked players provided their combined classification points did not exceed 62,000. A separate vote retained the existing mechanical-marker rate-of-fire rules by 17 votes to six.[3]

== Competition ==

=== Professional ===

Chicago Aftershock won ahead of Team Smoke and Kapp Factory. Aftershock scored 98 points in each of its two final-round games, accumulating 196 points. Team Smoke finished with 97 and Kapp Factory with 18.[2][4]

=== Amateur ===

Saberwolves won the amateur final round with 192 points, ahead of Valhalla on 105 and TRIBE Savages on 16.[2][4]

=== Open five-player ===

ac POWERHOUSE won the open five-player final round with 198 points. Florida Annihilators finished second with 92, followed by AFTERSHOCK with 20.[2][4]

== Final standings ==

=== Professional 10-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Chicago Aftershock
|-
| 2 || Team Smoke
|-
| 3 || Kapp Factory
|-
| 4 || FARSIDE
|-
| 5 || All Americans
|-
| 6 || Image
|-
| 7 || ac EMPIRE
|-
| 8 || The Misfits
|-
| 9 || Saints
|-
| 10 || Los Angeles Infamous
|-
| 11 || Ground Zero Gold
|-
| 12 || Northwest Rogue
|-
| 13 || Mutiny
|-
| 14 || Adrenaline
|-
| 15 || Fight Club
|-
| 16 || Rushers
|-
| 17 || Annihilators
|-
| 18 || MVPS Dark Ops
|-
| 19 || Ground Zero
|-
| 20 || Docs Warriors
|-
| 21 || Desert Edge
|}

=== Amateur 10-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Saberwolves
|-
| 2 || Valhalla
|-
| 3 || TRIBE Savages
|-
| 4 || Louisville Asylum
|-
| 5 || Warboyz
|-
| 6 || FRACTION
|-
| 7 || Hydra.Fit
|-
| 8 || Brimstone
|-
| 9 || Maple Leaf Chiefs
|-
| 10 || THE FARM
|-
| 11 || Revolution
|-
| 12 || Wiseguys
|-
| 13 || Jungle Lizards
|-
| 14 || Annihilators 10 man
|-
| 15 || AAF
|-
| 16 || Team 13
|-
| 17 || GA Xtreme Legends
|-
| 18 || Portland Darkside
|-
| 19 || Mutiny Swords
|-
| 20 || Desert Edge
|-
| 21 || Pittsburgh Rampage
|-
| 22 || HUSH
|-
| 23 || TeamCRUSH2.0
|-
| 24 || ARMADA
|-
| 25 || Orlando Savage
|-
| 26 || Ohio Grassmen
|-
| 27 || AllStars
|}

=== Open five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || ac POWERHOUSE
|-
| 2 || Florida Annihilators
|-
| 3 || AFTERSHOCK
|-
| 4 || Ground Zero
|-
| 5 || MLC
|-
| 6 || VINTAGE
|-
| 7 || Smoke This
|-
| 8 || Image
|-
| 9 || ARMADA RED
|-
| 10 || Saberwolves
|-
| 11 || AllStars Black
|-
| 12 || Prime Suspects SEMO
|-
| 13 || AAF 3
|-
| 14 || Desert Edge
|-
| 15 || ac EVIL
|-
| 16 || A_SHOCK
|-
| 17 || Louisville Asylum 2
|-
| 18 || AAF 2
|-
| 19 || Pittsburgh Rampage Tan
|-
| 20 || Ground Zero Black
|-
| 21 || Mutiny
|-
| 22 || Desert Edge
|-
| 23 || Rogue
|-
| 24 || AllStars Red
|}

PBLeagues lists separate Desert Edge entries in 14th and 22nd place in the five-player division.[2]

Source for all final standings: PBLeagues.[2]

== See also ==

* [[International Classic Paintball League]]
* [[2022 ICPL season]]
* [[2022 ICPL Golden State Classic]]

== References ==

# [https://pbleagues.com/event/7391/info PBLeagues – ICPL Sunshine Classic: official event information, dates, venue and formats, 28–30 January 2022.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/7391/rankings PBLeagues – Sunshine Classic: official final divisional standings.]
# [https://paintballnerd.com/blogs/news/the-captains-of-the-pro-division-in-the-icpl-have-voted-and-the-rules-will-be-changing Paintball Nerd – ICPL 2022 rule change sparks controversy, 5 November 2021.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/7391 PBLeagues – ICPL Sunshine Classic: preliminary, quarter-final, semi-final and final-round scores.]

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